Andrade, MDF;
Artaxo, P;
El Khouri Miraglia, SG;
Gouveia, N;
Krupnick, AJ;
Krutmann, J;
Landrigan, PJ;
... Scheer, I; + view all
(2019)
Air Pollution and Health - A Science-Policy Initiative.
Annals of Global Health
, 85
(1)
, Article 140. 10.5334/aogh.2656.
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Abstract
Air pollution is a major, preventable and manageable threat to people’s health, well-being and the fulfillment of sustainable development. Air pollution is estimated to contribute to at least 5 million premature deaths each year across the world. No one remains unaffected by dirty air, but the adverse impacts of air pollution fall most heavily upon vulnerable populations, such as children, women, and people living in poverty — groups to whom States have special obligations under international human rights law. The National Academies of Sciences and Medicine of South Africa, Brazil, Germany and the United States of America are calling upon government leaders, business and citizens to take urgent action on reducing air pollution throughout the world — to the benefit of human health and well-being, to the benefit of the environment and as a condition towards sustainable development. Air pollution is a cross-cutting aspect of many UN Sustainable Development Goals.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Air Pollution and Health - A Science-Policy Initiative |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.5334/aogh.2656 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.5334/aogh.2656 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > UCL Institute for Global Prosperity |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10109773 |
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